Ezra Koenig Quotes

Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.

Ezra Koenig

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• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • You

• It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Matter
  • Information
  • Debate

• People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Think
  • Too Much

• I'm completely in love with the idea of love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Completely

• I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Mortician

• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Summer

• It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Think
  • Happen
  • Injuries

• We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• I love doing hair and makeup and making 'Video Star' videos with my friend, Kendall. I also love to draw. But my life is dance, dance and more dance. I wouldn't want it any other way.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friend

• I don't like when I look too cluttered.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Look
  • Too

• Having been connected with industry during my entire life, it seems eminently proper that I should turn back, in part, the proceeds of that activity with the hope of promoting a broader as well as a better understanding of the economic principles and national policies which have characterized American enterprise down through the years.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Life
  • American
  • Hope

• I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.

  

  Chevy Chase

• I believe that what I am putting into my body is just as important as what I am putting on my body.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Believe
  • Important

• Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

  

  Marilyn Nelson
  • Believe

• Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.

  

  Laurent Jalabert
  • Decision

• To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

  

  David Newman
  • Music
  • Father

• It's taken me a long time to get work, so that's why I like to play really different characters that are really foreign to me. I want it to be something great, and I want to have a great experience.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Communication

• When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Me
  • Growing

• All my collaborations happen in different ways. Sometimes it's through a chance meeting at a festival or event, while others can happen just off the back of me liking their music and reaching out.

  

  Kygo
  • Music
  • Different

• You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Wall

• Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Music
  • Growing Up
  • True Love